Sony Doubles Down On Their Spider-Man Villain Movie Strategy With ‘Venom Carnage’

Venom Carnage sounds like a terrible metal band, but instead it’s a revelation of Sony’s superhero strategy. Namely, the superheroes aren’t doing so well for the, what with the douchebag dads and declining box office… so let’s see how the villains do.

Honestly, it’s not the worst idea. Venom is awful as a character, little more than the inevitable evil knockoff every superhero has to fight at some point, but he’s beloved and there’s really no way to explain the symbiote and Eddie Brock’s connection to it without taking a whole movie to lay it out. Similarly, as flat as Venom is, Carnage is even flatter. For those unfamiliar, here’s his entire personality: He kills you, because it’s fun. Seriously, that’s all there is to Cletus. Yes, he’s named Cletus. Really, he needs Venom, or to be shrunken down into the Microverse, to be remotely interesting.

We just hope nothing’s watered down. The entire appeal of Carnage stories is that the guy is so evil he makes Venom look good, which is pretty hard to do when you look like H.P. Lovecraft’s Spider-Man. We also hope they insert a colon into that name because, really, Venom Carnage? Half the audience is going to show up expecting a Will Ferrell comedy about a hair metal band. Which we admit, we’d actually see. Maybe Sony could combine the two.

@Dan Seitz and I enjoyed him as eric forman as well, but was he good as venom in “spiderman 3?” i think that’s what we should be asking here. perhaps he wasn’t given that much to work with in that movie, and a roll that should have played to his strengths ended up DOA.

I still think Sony screwed this franchise up when they forced Raimi to put Venom in the third Spider Man movie instead of the classic villains he preferred, Vulture or Sinister Six. Thanks for that turd of a movie Sony!

I hate that Sony is making these movies. I wish Marvel had Spider-man. Sony tries to damn hard to convert comic books into movies for mainstream audiences while Marvel has figured out that you don’t need to convert anything. Just make a comic book in movie form and watch a billion dollars roll in. Marvel does it so much better than Sony and Fox.

Yep, he does at the very least have visual appeal. Probably gonna look awesomely weird on screen. And hell, maybe the script would significantly rewrite him so as to make him actually kind of interesting as a character.

Spider-man is undoubtedly my favorite Marvel super hero. Sony has completely ruined Spider-man’s image and mystique. I’m embarrassed to be a fan of this comic at all now thanks to Sony. I long for the day when Marvel reacquires this once Amazing character (the same goes for The Fantastic Four and the X-Men to a lesser extent). Don’t misunderstand, Marvel has laid a few eggs too … but nothing as horrendous what Sony did to Spider-man.

Fucking Sony makes me sick. The have a literal shit ton of gold in front of them and they have the attitude “let’s sell the wood the gold is stored in for firewood. It will be the fastest way to make money”

I like how a lot of you don’t understand why Carnage makes for an awesome villain. Go back and play your “Maximun Carnage” (awesome) and rewatch the 90’s Spider-Man TAS. In the comics, he’s brutality! Serial killer + crazy symbiote = LUNATIC! However, how do you possibly pull off what that character is capable of unless it’s an R-rating? That’s the only worry I have, but a Spider-Man and Venom team up is the way to go for Sony. Getting to that is the fun part!